From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: graphics mode
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:09:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oe7992b4.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509031454.31833.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:54:31 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> - Get font data from BIOS and attach shades to glyphs optionally.
I prefer the fontmanager, it is portable.
> I guess there is no reason that we cannot use the mode 0x12 instead of 0x10
> (640x350x16), if they can. Since the height 350 is very small, I'm willing to
> go back to 0x12. Marco, do you agree?
Does everything (especially scrolling) still work correctly after
changing it? If it does, I do agree.
> The palette optimization is dirty, but required when the color depth is very
> small.
How does this work?
> Personally, I don't think cursor blinking is required. I rather prefer a
> static, reverse-color cursor, as in Emacs.
If someone has a good reason to use this, it can be implemented later.
> The concept of a viewport is really good, and we should implement this in GRUB
> 2.
Yes, it is important. By doing this it will be easier to make a
theme. The more things that can be customized, the better IMO.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-03 12:54 graphics mode Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-09-03 23:09 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-09-11 19:48 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-09-11 19:56 ` Marco Gerards
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